American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . ust, and continues fir a long time. Thereis a variegated leaved form which is rathercurious, but the variegation is not constant. Mr. Nathaniel Hill, Pleasant Hill, Ohio, hasanother way of arriving at the same result. Heuses a triangular wooden frame as a guide. Theframe, fig. 2, is made of two strips of plankplaced so as to form two sides of a triangle ofthe required length, and provided with a crosspiece to keep it in shape. Iu laying off an or-chard, but one straight line has to be marked fora base line and the distances for the f
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . ust, and continues fir a long time. Thereis a variegated leaved form which is rathercurious, but the variegation is not constant. Mr. Nathaniel Hill, Pleasant Hill, Ohio, hasanother way of arriving at the same result. Heuses a triangular wooden frame as a guide. Theframe, fig. 2, is made of two strips of plankplaced so as to form two sides of a triangle ofthe required length, and provided with a crosspiece to keep it in shape. Iu laying off an or-chard, but one straight line has to be marked fora base line and the distances for the first row Laying out an Orchard. When trees are set equidistant in parallelrows, the land is not laid off to the best advan-tage. The plan is modified by making the treesiu one row alternate with those in the next, amethod to which the term quincunx is differs from others iu his description ofquincunx, which he says is constituted by onecentral tree surrounded by six, and all equi-distant. This is planting in hexagons, and SCrt 20F 20* 7\ 1 *. Fig. 1.—PLAN OF THF. ORCHARD. while ive legrct that Warder should have given to it a name that is likely to lead to confusion,we quite agree with him that ii i- the plan uponwhich the greatest number of trees can be setupon an acre and all be at equal distances. Ifthe trees are to be 20feet apart, hi- direc-tions are to lay off par-allel lilies 17 feet 4inches apart, by stakesor by marking these lines, atright angles with them,arc drawn others, 10feet apart. The trees are set at every alternateintersection of the cross marks with the longitu-dinal ones. The accompanying diagram, , will show the arrangement, and it will beseen that each tree is at the corner of an equi-lateral triangle, and is also at the centre of aheiajon, formed by six other equidistant trees.
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